Comments about ‘Andrew Morriss: U.S. is forcing Canada to trade with China by pushing ally into China's arms’

This is utterly wrong. Google "Northern Gateway pipeline." The Canadians
have been desperate to move tar sands oil out of their country for a decade, but
the obvious pipeline path from Alberta to the British Columbia coast has been
mired in controversy and is once again stalled. So, what do you do when you are
tripling production but your main customer is buying less and less (American oil
consumption is on the way down and will tumble when the new fuel economy
standards kick in)? You diversify. Asking hard questions about Keystone XL
doesn't force Canada to trade with China---they are planning to do it
whether we allow the pipeline or not.

If you don't want
Canadian oil going to China, don't build Keystone XL, which is designed to
be an export pipeline. The oil set for Keystone XL is not going to hit American
gas tanks, it will increase the trend that already has this country as a net
exporter of finished petroleum products.

Not mentioned in the
article is the fact that tar sands oil from Canada is the dirtiest from a
greenhouse gas perspective on the planet, hence the concern by many.

Obama is not truthful. In a speech-August 4, 2008, in Lansing, Michigan, he
stated that he would work with the Canadian government on a pipeline, and start
drilling on sixty eight million acres that currently exist in our country, and
also seventy million acres in the Gulf of Mexico. He blamed the oil companies
for not drilling, and preventing the formation of new jobs. He will changed
this.